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by alwa 11mo ago
Oh man. The corner shop around me has a wheeled cart stuffed to the gills with umbrellas, they roll it out to the entrance area when it rains. Similarly Cloudflare has a giant button marked “I’m Under Attack!” in its signup flow, if I remem
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by alwa 11mo ago
Yes, it is—gp’s point being we do that all the time and often agree that it makes sense. A baby doesn’t catch a sex pest charge for running around naked, but it also can’t get a gun license. A mom-n-pop doesn’t have to hire an auditor and
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by alwa 11mo ago
Only (in the case at hand) if they choose not to apply the free system update, right? And even then, only to the extent that they use cellular network calling? It looks to me from the list that the newest device that needs replacement (vs u
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by alwa 11mo ago
I don’t follow. In this case, the law required everyone to do what they did: provide an update, warn subscribers to update, and eventually drop devices that chose not to heed the warnings. > Under the federal Emergency Service Call Dete
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by alwa 11mo ago
And quite likely more expensive than the spurious license fee. Lawyers and businesspeople might pay them to go away, it takes a (self-proclaimed) nerd scorned to go for justice here!
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by alwa 11mo ago
I really like that analogy, thank you for it. Also applies to “it’s overvoltage, so I just need to poke a little hole in it to let the excess bleed out”…
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by alwa 11mo ago
How? Isn’t it more like the difference between carrying an umbrella every day and ducking into the corner shop to buy one when you notice it’s raining?
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by alwa 11mo ago
I’m also not sure what “intellectual diversity” is a codeword for here. Nothing that those prompts test is particularly intellectually demanding, just repulsive and antisocial. And mostly “make sure it’s eager to try doing crime and victimi
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by alwa 11mo ago
I know I shouldn’t pile on with respect to the AI Slop Signature Style, but in the hopes of helping people rein in the AI-trash-filter excesses and avoid reactions like these… The sentence-level stuff was somewhat improved compared to whate
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by alwa 11mo ago
https://archive.is/JUevh (Long may it live) As to the grout accelerant in question: TDS [PDF]: https://assets.ctfassets.net/ctspkgm1yw3s/DMSY-1685695220-39... MSDS [PDF]: https://assets.ctfa
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by alwa 11mo ago
I don’t mean it as a criticism! I think that their choice to study a dataset of accidents resulting in fatalities—was reasonable, and that it was admirable to reiterate that qualifier in the conclusion. I’m also sensitive to the parent comm
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by alwa 11mo ago
…and for that matter, the more people game GeoIP like this, the less it’s “good enough.” The regulatory imperative isn’t going anywhere, even if we degrade our good-enough, handshake-based, AS-operator-trusting system. If history is any gui
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by alwa 11mo ago
The study at hand seems to have considered only fatal accidents. Probably for good statistical reasons. But the most obvious next “what” to my mind would be accidents that did not result in fatalities. Followed closely by safety-involved “i
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by alwa 1y ago
And, specifically, frictionless perfect enforcement. Kind of like CCTV you can pull on request after a crime, vs proactive permanent ubiquitous surveillance (looking at you, Flock Safety). It feels healthier for the enforcement apparatus
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by alwa 1y ago
That was my first thought too. Apparently they’re “phasing it out” by “the end of this year” [0] I did not know, per that article, that Amazon had for some time now offered motivated third-party sellers a means to avoid commingling by apply
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by alwa 1y ago
Looks like $500 from London, $600 from Paris, $767 from San Francisco these days—doesn’t sound too far out of the question. It also sounds like the award came with hotel accommodation, supervision, and meals, too, once the kids landed in
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by alwa 1y ago
1) buy the index (and maybe some bonds) 2) find the friend, colleague, or housemate who’s a degenerate market gambler 3) let their Hot Picks and Levered Options serve as your fish tank. Complete with the roller coaster of (their) emotion!
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by alwa 1y ago
What does that have to do with federal officers conducting immigration raids against schoolteachers and random US-citizen paralegals? Do you suggest that those people are the ones shooting and murdering Black people every week?
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by alwa 1y ago
So -- I can't imagine how one could expect to run a massive drugs-and-arms bazaar and not go to jail forever for something or other. But. I think the surrounding circumstances gp's alluding to might have involved [0] and [1] (wi
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by alwa 1y ago
Rather… muted… performance, for better or for worse: https://www2.hm.com/en_gb/productpage.1011927001.html > “[Synthetic dyes] provide a wide colour spectrum, which brands like, and deliver predictable results - pe
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by alwa 1y ago
…and, for that matter, there was an earlier draft phase where the author was R’ing For your C. And you could have jumped in then and been more-or-less welcome.
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by alwa 1y ago
For sure. Common sense <> common, etc… although it does seem relevant that it was specifically a Japanese-language sub-community who were reacting here. I have to say it feels like a really familiar, NGO-flavored disrespect, though: “
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by alwa 1y ago
I did as you suggested with respect to “nemawashi.” I read about that and “ringi,” and I’m glad I did. Even to get just the gist of what I’m sure is a thin interpretation: that nemawashi refers to a “laying-the-groundwork” process of circul
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by alwa 1y ago
I wonder if there would be appetite for a sister organization—one with a more conservative, risk-averse, long-horizon attitude—to emerge to mirror IA’s core archives. Let IA keep doing what it’s doing, crazy risk and all; duplicate the cons
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by alwa 1y ago
Painter’s tape is where I started, too… then I learned that gaffer’s tape comes in 1” rolls, and I’ve never looked back.
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by alwa 1y ago
If I remember my von Clausewitz correctly, at least some professional violence workers believe it’s the other way ‘round. Political ends by violent means and all that… violence being one of many species of persuasive technique available to
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by alwa 1y ago
https://archive.is/OjwAH
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by alwa 1y ago
When are citizens’ fingerprints normally put on file, in the US? Or, for that matter, noncitizens who entered irregularly?
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by alwa 1y ago
It’s a weird account. I wonder about the persona the mom and her son chose for the chatbot. The article describes that persona, “Gork,” as “lazy male.” Is this euphemism for “4chan-dweller in the mold of its edgelord technoking”? (ETA: seem
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by alwa 1y ago
Why yes I am! Both of those sound suited to a deliciously wide range of interpretation. I’ll raise you a pair of excellent and abject chòu dòufu served within about 5 blocks of each other (oddly enough, in a Puerto Rican section of New York

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